As a resident of Huntington Beach since 1979 I have seen the City of Huntington Beach evolve drastically over the time I have lived in the city. Educated in the private school system at Saint Bonaventure and later at Mater Dei High School, I was blessed by my parents to have attended these private educational institutions.
Twenty years ago, when it came time for educating my children, I was not impressed with the public school offerings in Huntington Beach at the time, and have truly seen the social problems worsen. I have also seen enough in the news media and have heard firsthand from parents and children in my community, as to what is being taught, and it has motivated and inspired me to seek to make a difference, to get involved and try to bring some sensibility and traditional values back to what our children are learning for the next generation. I do feel parents’ frustrations and schools’ attempts to diminish parental rights in child rearing, overriding parental guidance and innate parental authority for their own children. Although I have observed some families make the choice to leave the public school system, not all have the luxury, or desire to do so. Consequently, I feel that there is only one way to foster and implement positive and healthy change: at the ground level within the school board leadership.
I am a firm advocate for the necessity to change the protocol and immediacy of how parents are notified and wholly restore parental authority over one’s children, within the public school structure. Specifically, empowering parents’ voice and informed involvement, in regards to any discussion or counsel pertaining to the child’s gender identity and the full spectrum of curriculum taught within the educational system.
Also, very important to me is the need to prohibit the books that are considered to be sexually provocative, erotic, pornographic, or other indoctrinating agendas in literature and curriculum, including anti-semitic propaganda for children under the age of 18. These illicit and inappropriate materials mislead and confuse children and have no place in our schools.
I valiantly uphold an essential resurgence within the schools return to bring back traditional and age appropriate values to the classroom. Distractive and divisive agendas undermine the psychosocial, emotional and cognitive development of children in their learning atmosphere at school. I am a firm believer that our schools need to be a safe haven for all with zero-tolerance of both hateful speech that incites violence and bullying.
I faithfully seek to ensure that at school, our children’s minds are consistently instructed and unwaveringly navigated towards academic excellence and age appropriate, interpersonal enrichment and social maturation, without indoctrination. The window of time to inspire and educate children for the next generation is finite and invaluable.
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